{"id":228512,"date":"2025-10-16T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228512\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:43:07","slug":"texas-tech-qb-behren-morton-injury-update-ahead-of-arizona-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228512\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech QB Behren Morton injury update ahead of Arizona State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/sites\/red-raider-sports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech<\/a> quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/behren-morton-9563\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Behren Morton<\/a> is expected to be listed as questionable on the Wednesday night Big 12 availability report ahead of Saturday at Arizona State, sources tell on3. Morton has been day-to-day since exiting last weekend\u2019s win against Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>X-rays on his right ankle came back negative on Sunday. Morton suffered the injury late in the second quarter after a Jayhawks lineman landed on his right ankle. The quarterback was in clear pain as he limped to the sidelines and attempted to jog it off. <\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that Behren Morton has gone down with an injury this season. He also left the Week 4 game against\u00a0Utah\u00a0due to a neck injury. Texas Tech had a bye the following week, and Morton made his return from that injury in Week 6 against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/houston-cougars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Morton also suffered a leg injury in the season opener against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/arkansas-pine-bluff-golden-lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansas-Pine Bluff<\/a>\u00a0that forced him to sit the second half. Texas Tech coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/joey-mcguire-131764\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey McGuire<\/a>\u00a0said the injury that occurred Saturday is to the same leg.<\/p>\n<p>Morton has thrown for 1,501 yards and 13 touchdowns to three interceptions. He is a big part of the reason that the No. 7 Red Raiders have one of the top offenses in the country, ranking first in yards per game (558.2) and second in points per game (47.5).<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff against the Sun Devils is scheduled for 4 p.m. ET on Saturday in Tempe on FOX. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton is expected to be listed as questionable on the Wednesday night Big 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[7305,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-228512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-behren-morton-21-eastland","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}